reading about quotes as orphans and now I truly understand what they mean by being stuck in the ivory tower
like who gives a damn 😂 unnecessary reads annoy me
unpopular opinion but i don’t love barbie. i didn’t own a single barbie growing up because even then i understood the symbolism of her character - an aspiration for who to become. i still don’t know how to play dolls either - give me a book 🥱
everyone i know in their late 20s is having an existential crisis because we skipped our mid 20s in the pandemic. relationships fast-tracked, careers faltered, we lost those core identity-building years and now we feel like 23-year-old brains in bodies approaching 30
Choosing rest is definitely opting out of the value system of capitalism: hyper productivity & making ourselves constantly available to meaningless work lives. Choosing rest is good, it lays an anti-capitalist vibe that we can build on. Rest however is not inherently “resistance”
A persons beauty radiates from beyond their physical appearance — it's their character, their mannerisms, the way they treat others, how they speak to and treat those around them, the way in which their mind works, their perception of the world, how intrigued you are by them.
You deserve a calm love with someone who’s good for your mental health & nervous system. A person who's patient with you, protective of you & proud to be with you—someone who knows you're a work in progress but still adores you for the absolute fucking masterpiece you already are
you’ll piss a lot of ppl off when you start being authentically you. difference scares ppl who put themselves in the box of what everyone else says they should do. so they try to shame you into doing the same. it won’t work.
not everyone deserves healed versions of you, not everyone deserves to admire the flowers that’ve bloomed from the cracks in your heart, not everyone can hold you without pulling your triggers, feel no guilt for releasing what you’ve grown from to welcome in who you want to be.